Employees

Key Employee Statistics 2005
At December 31, 2005, the Group’s continued operations employed 15,935 people. This represented an increase of 12% versus the previous year’s level of 14,219. New employees were primarily added in own-retail activities at brand adidas as well at adidas Asia. At the end of 2005, 47% of our total employees were women and 53% were men. Of the executive management positions, 26% were held by women and 74% were held by men.

Index/reporting unit Total (Global) adidas TMaGolf HQ-Functions¹
Total headcount (in %) Male
Female
53%
47%
52%
48%
68%
32%
47%
53%
Management positions held by
(in %)
Male
Female
74%
26%
70%
30%
86%
14%
78%
22%
Average age of employees
(in years)
  32.1 30.7 36.6 35.5
Employee turnover (in %)2   9.0% 10.2% 4.3% 6.7%
Annual average length of service (in years)   5.0 4.5 4.9 6.6
Average number of training hours per employee / year   18.3 17.7 19.1 20.0
Source:1 Global Marketing, Global Operations, Global Corporate Services (e.g. Legal, Finance, HR)
2 Voluntary attrition


Health & Safety statistics for our own sites 2005

Our own sites No. of employees No. of workplace accidents No. of lost days
adidas Footwear Factory,
Scheinfeld, Germany
52 not reported 3
adidas Apparel Factory,
Suzhou, China
200 0 0
TaylorMade Assembly Factory, Carlsbad, USA 740 6 25
Headquarters of the adidas Group, Herzogenaurach, Germany 1.400 not reported 6
 
 
Last update: November 23, 2009